Murre

Desktop computer ordered on 9/11/17

Rhymes with blur. This is not a Common Murre, though black and white, this one is flightless.

Replacement for Laysan. I just wanted more RAM and ended up replacing everything but the drives!

Stupid Windows 10 annoyances

Microsoft spies on you

Change your home directory to move it out of OneDrive.

Disconnect your account from Microsoft.

• Click on "Start" (or rather the icon :-)
• Click on the profile picture.
• Click on "Change account info"
• Click the thing that now says "Sign in with a Microsoft account instead" that says something else before you click on it because I already changed it.

This means your settings won't be saved to Microsoft, I don't care because I only have this one Windows machine. Instead I currently let Google spy on my via Chrome instead.

Focus follows mouse

I used X-Mouse Controls:

https://superuser.com/questions/954021/how-do-you-enable-focus-follows-mouse-in-windows-10

Alt-Tab is no longer useful

Now Alt-Tab requires picking the app you want with the mouse, forcing me to take my hands off the keyboard and requiring me to figure out which app to click on.

Use option-Tab (on my Mac keyboard) or Win-Tab on a normal one.

New users

Situation: You want to create a new user account because it takes 5 minutes for ArcMap to start and you want to try a different profile. Since it takes ArcGIS Pro only 10 seconds to start I assume it's ArcMap that is screwed up, not the computer.

You can apparently create users but you can't log in, Windows is lying.

http://www.thewindowsclub.com/other-users-not-displaying-windows There is a tedious process to enable it. I did the first step, then used Computer Management -> Local Users and Groups to create a second user.

I added "brian32768" and put him in the Administrators and Ssh groups.

Then I signed out. NOW I get the list of users. Both of them named Brian Wilson. One with a picture and one without. It looks like ArcMap is just as slow in the new profile.

Eventually between ESRI upgrades and license renewals this problem went away. Huh.

Hardware

11/1/18 I could use a couple TB of SSD for GIS data here. This is pretty practical now since 1TB SSD drives are now closing in on $100.

1/8/18 I followed these instructions to set up Murre to power down automatically every night if I forget to do it. https://www.maketecheasier.com/automatically-shutdown-windows-at-night/

12/1/17 Cyberpower UPS added.

9/15/17 Up and running

• WD Black 512GB Performance SSD - M.2 2280 PCIe NVMe Solid State Drive - WDS512G1X0C
• 2 x Seagate Barracuda SATA 3.0 in RAID 0, mounted at D:
• Nvidia Quadro 2000D video card

These parts ordered 9/11/17

• ASUS TUF X299 Mark 2 motherboard (Warranty 5 year)
• Intel Core i9-7900X Skylake-X 10 core CPU (Warranty 3 year)
• Cooler Master "MasterLiquid Lite 120" liquid CPU cooler with one 120mm fan (Warranty 3 year)
• 64 GB RAM G.Skill TridentZ (4x16) DDR4 3200 (leaves 4 slots free) (Lifetime warranty)
• Seasonic SS-750KM3 750W 80plus Gold modular power supply (Warranty 7 year)
• Fractal Designs Meshify C case (my least favorite part since it has no 5.25" drive slot; I liked Laysan's case more.)

Software

Printing

First I installed the Brother drivers from their site. Then used the CUPS IPP printer, by typing it into Windows: http://192.168.123.2:631/printers/brother_hll2320d and then specifying the correct driver in the Windows wizard.

Operating system

Windows 10 Pro, Full version installed on NVME

I was tired of not being able to get full use of that video card due to restrictions caused by running under VirtualBox. I will still run Linux in VirtualBox when I needed it.

In preparation I "deauthorized" ArcGIS 10.5 Desktop on Laysan, and according to this guide I just have to march through the Windows 10 "reactivation" procedure that I went through a month ago when I accidentally made changes to the VirtualBox machine. In this case it required calling the 855- number and reading the 70 digit number to a human. Then a robot gave me the secret reactivation code.

I am frustrated at the notion of installing native Windows 10 when my Parallels + Windows 7 combination on my Mac works so well. C'est la guerre.

Everything else

"?" means I have not installed it yet and am not sure I want to.

• ActiveState Komodo?
• Conda + spyder
• Adobe Acrobat DC
• Docker for Windows (requires HyperV from Windows 10 Pro) Not using this currently on Murre, I have my servers running again!
• PERSONAL license: ESRI ArcGIS Desktop 10.6.1, ArcGIS Pro 2.2
• Libreoffice 5
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 (free Community version)
• OwnCloud Client
• Windows Subsystem for Linux (Ubuntu on Windows, almost a miracle) which includes
  • bash
  • emacs
  • ssh client
  • rsync

Using Docker with HyperV (part of Windows 10 Pro) is not compatible with VirtualBox. If I want to run virtual machines here I will need to run them under HyperV.

With WSL installed you can

• sudo apt install emacs

Install miniconda 64 bit python 3.6 and add git; adding git gives me a Git Bash shell too.

conda install git

Synology Cloud Station Drive

I rsync'ed all the TrailPeople data over from Plover and then I linked the server. That avoided pulling a fresh copy of every file over from the server.